Of those numbers whose English representation in Capital Block Letters consists only of straight lines, only one number has a value equal to the number of straight line segments required to write it out. What number is this?

(Note: Hyphens '-' are not to be counted as a Line Segment).

(In reply to Y : 3 Line Segments by Ravi Raja)

When I print a capital 'Y,' I only use two lines . Similarly, it is not uncommon to see someone cross the top and bottom of an 'I' to make it three segments (although you didn't mention that, I considered both alternate cases and notated them in a like manner).

For most sans serif typefaces or handwritten block letters, though, 'Y' is written with three segments and 'I' with just one. If you look at my list, I have included both, but made it obvious which is probably more acceptable by putting a question mark with the other ones. Indeed, those are the numbers I used in my solution.

I'm not really sure what your point is, since [obviously] I counted 3 segments for 'Y.' If you must leave a comment to everything, perhaps a good one for this problem would have been "yes, that is right."

Posted by DJ on 2003-05-18 16:01:45